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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  , and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the Standard ... MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation ... students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  conversation. I discovered that spinach, which I previously considered to be the ... not so excited when I found out that most of the classes I want to take ... turquoise salad bowl belonging to the Furio Home Thailand collection, be sure

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  reason for doing so, you see. In a little bit more than 48 hours, I will be ... , or the exam that tests your ability to choose correct responses to 144 ... the SAT is bad, wait till you get to the MCAT. But that's enough

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  feel to be back in the city m: kinda weird it's nice because i love nyc ... isn’t the case m: all excellent points but i will try to explore you ... rooms p: it’ll be interesting to see how the culture evolves because

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  to this application! These essays have to be the best thing I’ve ever ... , not inspirition. The opposite. I realized “if I only have to change the ... deferred in December, I knew this had to be the case. I had given up any hope

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where ... dogs and him. I always seemed to be so fast, to move so quickly to ... not say I was afraid to fall in love again -- I think I fell rather

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  dinner at the airport, then took another flight to Pittsburgh. I'm not much ... . It's a nice feeling to recognize someone as being from the same country ... tried to find the room the graders were supposed to be in. CMU's campus is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  to my legs. Score 1 Mount Washington. Of course, it wouldn’t be the ... the rhythmic turns. It’s pure joy. I’m not a very good racer, I will ... MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  , it is now I make my triumphant return to these blogs.The timing is ... peers. Everyone wants to live somewhere they can be happy and comfortable ... 's a place for you. That is why I don't think it's redundant to add

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  set -- you will be able to skip this section. The Midyear Updates form will be a simple text box, similar to one of the essays from the Part 2 ... .k.a. "MYR") are currently the most popular question being called in to our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... Prep teachers, and I quickly signed up to be a teacher. Throughout the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  eyes bleed (not true), that in order to be successful you have to be some ... , I think that engineers need to talk not only about the projects they ... , because it's NOT a priority to the people who evaluate them. The culture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  that night, the lights in the building would be turned on to spell SOX ... going to be the new trend in blogging. Thursday: Woke up at 8:30 AM to the ... woke her up. It's not a big deal from MIT students to be prompt

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  science" and "Maybe it's ok to be this way").  You can see the ... with Writing to form CMS/W, which includes the Science Writing program ... . According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  was used to being at the top of her class, the transition to high school ... days, you could find them there getting drunk. Not the falling down kind ... them to keep it down. On others, Joey took a trip to the emergency room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  're not herded into giant classes like so many moo cows. According to the ... 'm close with have been more than willing to be mentors to me. Plus, Carlos ... recitation is not the person lecturing. For instance, I have 5.60 lecture three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  conflicting ideas. There will almost certainly be times where you have to agree ... food but the Ethiopian side of me is so used to people begging you to eat ... any ties to the other side. It was so bad that I would leave a movie

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  just an intro, with future information to come. The main reason for this entry is to let you know about the live webcast of the competition. It will begin at 6 pm EST on Thursday the 31st (today). Check it out and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  , as I'm sure Sam will be excited to know, the book mentions the Maillard ... equipment), and let's just say that the past four years were not kind to it ... shouldn't choose not to come here because you think you'll be able to get in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  collection) will be displayed at a time. The idea is to give folks a glimpse ... the hope is to have a portlet that will display various streaming video ... making adjustments and enhancements to the application that generates My

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004